Topband: Don Miller and CW Pileup Management

[ZR]

I remember all of his DXpeditions, even the ones he wasnt at and have the 
cards to prove it..

One really comes to mind was him with a card table on some rocks with water 
showing and Galaxy gear on the table. Was that Serrana Bank? And taken in CA 
or FL iffn I remember.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Grimm" <grimm at sbc.edu>
To: <k1zm at aol.com>
Cc: <K8MFO at aol.com>; <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Don Miller and CW Pileup Management


> Yep, that's the way I remember it too.  It is just so sad that he had that
> other side of him that got him in trouble with the ham community and
> society generally.  Poor guy.  Such a waste.
>
> 73,
>
> Ken - K4XL
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:45 PM, k1zm at aol.com <k1zm at aol.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Don
>>
>> Yes - we both remember the Don Miller style of working a CW pileup pretty
>> much the same way.
>>
>> In this case, I quickly realized that if I stuck with the CORE PILE I was
>> going to have to really WORK HARD in order to pull out any calls - 
>> because
>> the guys were totally out of control and calling wildly and non-stop.
>>
>> I am not sure how I came to do what I did, except to say - that, like 
>> you,
>> I knew the opening might not repeat itself (Krassy too had only one night
>> at ST0R that was wide open) and he made the most of it  I learned from 
>> that
>> and from the Miller remembrances.
>>
>> So I just winged it and listened up and down for those on the fringes - 
>> in
>> order to maximize the potential of the opening.
>>
>> Glad it worked out because those good condx did not repeat themselves.
>>
>> BTW - if you have not already heard, the National Geographic JUNE issue
>> (which just came out) has a wonderful colorful spread on Socotra - really
>> worth a look.  It is also available ON LINE on their website - much of 
>> what
>> is portrayed there are things that I got to see on a tour of the island.
>>
>> 73 and hope you drank at least ONE BEER for me out at Dayton - I wanted 
>> to
>> come but just could not make it back in time without having had to pay
>> double for my airfare and I just wasn't willing to do that - HI.  This 
>> trip
>> all in was expensive enough....
>>
>> PS YES DON - We ***BOTH*** ARE GETTING OLD - and I am starting to FEEL IT
>> - HI HI
>>
>> JEFF  VY2ZM
>>
>>
>> K1ZM at aol.com
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: K8MFO <K8MFO at aol.com>
>> To: k1zm <k1zm at aol.com>
>> Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 7:42 pm
>> Subject: Re: Topband: 7O6T - 160m story - Part II
>>
>>
>> Jeff:
>>
>> At Dayton I told some folks that you were doing a "Miller-type act", but
>> they did not know what I was talking about!     Of course you report his
>> activities just as they happened at VU2WNV.
>>
>> I said at the time, and I still do, that the most impressive operating I
>> ever heard was W9WNV/FO8M - Maria Theresa.    Forget that the island was
>> not even above water, and that Miller may not even have been in the
>> vicinity.     I was sitting in a college dorm at Michigan State, with no
>> chance to work him, but I surely could hear him very well, and I listened
>> to him for hours.     For something to do, I timed him, and he was 
>> knocking
>> off over 250 per hour on CW  ...  I know, I did the counting!
>>
>> Don would come back to maybe 8 people, send the one RST  ....  let's say
>> he had blown one of those calls  --- he would correct it, and then have
>> maybe another 8 "tail enders", and he would send them the  single RST!
>> Never heard anything like that since ....    Your modified version was 
>> very
>> obvious to me, but maybe not to too many others.     Guess that means I'm
>> OLD, hi.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Don K8MFO
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 5/22/2012 2:30:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> k1zm at aol.com writes:
>> What I did that night was something I learned long ago from Don Miller's
>> operations in the 1960's
>>
>> What Don Miller used to do was a little more extreme - Don would answer 
>> 10
>> stations at a time - send 599 - and then pick out the next 10 and do it
>> again. As a kid in High SchooI, I used to listen in awe to him do this 
>> from
>> VU2WNV - man that guy was really good at it too!)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>>
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